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Andrew P. Napolitano

Andrew P. Napolitano, a former judge of the Superior Court of New Jersey, is an analyst for the Fox News Channel. He has written seven books on the U.S. Constitution.

Articles by Andrew P. Napolitano

America’s rule of brute force: Searching for monsters around the globe

If it is lawful for the U.S. government to enter Mexico and kidnap a Mexican physician, is it lawful for the Chinese government to enter Hawaii and kidnap an American tech executive or politician?

December 28, 2022

What if Christmas is real?

What if Christmas is a core belief in the birth of Jesus Christ, who lived among us and many times offered a freely given promise of eternal life that no believer should reject or apologize for?

December 21, 2022

Americans’ right to be left alone

In his famous dissent in Olmstead v. United States, Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis in 1928 called the right to be left alone the most comprehensive of rights valued by civilized men.

December 14, 2022

Protecting Ye, Alex Jones and Trump’s freedom of hate speech

Not too long ago, it was considered unfashionable to discuss the Nazis in Germany in the 1930s and '40s in terms of anyone's present-day behavior.

December 7, 2022

American government’s use of private enterprise to do unconstitutional dirty work

Fascism is a governmental system in which the means of economic production and delivery of services are privately owned but government-controlled.

November 30, 2022

Thanksgiving In America, what if?

What if the government's true goal is to perpetuate its own power?

November 23, 2022

FBI deployed unconstitutional ‘zero-click’ Pegasus surveillance software

During the Trump administration, the FBI paid $5 million to an Israeli software company for a license to use its "zero-click" surveillance software called Pegasus.

November 16, 2022

Republicans and the growth of government

As I write this on Election Day, I obviously don't know the outcomes of the U.S. midterm elections.

November 9, 2022

Supreme Court revisits affirmative action at our nation’s universities

Today, nearly all colleges and universities use race as an admissions factor. They believe that they are serving a societal good and advancing the public policy of the United States.

November 2, 2022

George W. Bush should be tried for war crimes

Last week, the government announced that it does not want to try Khalid Shaikh Mohammed and four of his colleagues whom it claims are the remaining conspirators of the attacks on 9/11.

October 26, 2022

Alex Jones and the freedom of speech

The iconic language of the First Amendment can be recited by schoolchildren, yet it is ignored by judges in Connecticut when the speech has been uttered by Alex Jones.

October 19, 2022

Team Biden’s standard for ordering killings is wrong

Last week, President Biden secretly reaffirmed his own self-willed authority to kill people in other countries.

October 12, 2022

Taking America’s rights seriously

The world is filled with self-evident truths -- truisms -- that philosophers, lawyers and judges know need not be proved.

October 5, 2022

Edward Snowden: A hero of truth banished from America

When the Trump administration obtained an indictment of Edward Snowden, many of us who believe that the Fourth Amendment means what it says were deeply critical of the government, and we remain so today.

September 28, 2022

DeSantis, Abbott’s transporting of migrants are acts of trafficking and kidnapping

Can the governor of New Jersey ship me to Texas because I am an unpopular thorn in his side in the Garden State? Of course not. Then neither can the Texas or Florida governors do likewise.

September 21, 2022

Why you should use cash to buy guns

Under pressure from the governors of New York and California, Visa, Mastercard and American Express have agreed to keep a list of commercial transactions made through their credit card systems at gun shops.

September 14, 2022

The right of Americans to be left alone

The Fourth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution guarantees the right to privacy. Like other amendments in the Bill of Rights, it doesn't create the right; it limits government interference with it.

September 7, 2022